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Guillaume Bienaimé

Chef · Owner / operator — French cooking on the Peninsula, and downtown Palo Alto read from a kitchen that has traded on Bryant Street since 2014.

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Guillaume Bienaimé is chef and owner of Zola in Palo Alto, which he opened in 2014 after cooking in California, on the East Coast and in France; he was raised partly in Palo Alto and went to what is now Silicon Valley International School. He won Food Network's Alex vs. America against Alex Guarnaschelli with a braised escargot vol-au-vent and gave the $10,000 to World Central Kitchen. Zola is still trading in 2026, and he is reopening Palo Alto's Old Pro as The Pro on Ramona Street, one of thirteen Silicon Valley openings The Almanac named for 2026 (Andrew Luck is an investor).

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